War is cruel and tortures human nature. After Germany surrendered in 1945, all German soldiers stationed in Denmark became prisoners of war. The Danish people, of course, hated these German soldiers who had murdered their relatives. After they beat the Nazi soldiers first, they decided to let them demining. Because of the war, in order to prevent the Allied forces from attacking, the Germans planted 1.5 million anti-tank and anti-personnel mines in Denmark. Ray was buried by the Germans, and the Danes thought they would have to dismantle it themselves! However, in this batch of German prisoners in Denmark, most of them are actually old, weak, sick and disabled, and they are simply not competent for demining work. As a result, the Danish military selected about 2,600 German prisoners of war among these German prisoners and asked them to undertake the work of clearing mines in Denmark. Many of these German prisoners of war were only 16 or 17 years old. These selected German teenagers, in fact, they have been abandoned by Germany, at that time they were just as thin as dust prisoners of war. However, Danish officials have always insisted that the Germans involved in mine clearance operations were all volunteers, not forced! Although some mechanical vehicles are used to clear mines in the demining work, more often they have to be cleared by manpower! Therefore, in this arduous mine clearance operation, a total of 149 German prisoners of war were killed by mines, 165 were seriously injured, and another 167 were slightly injured. Refers to having a leg or a hand blown off. More than half a century later, Denmark and Germany co-produced a film "Mine Field", which is actually about this history of mine clearance. Although there are many exaggerated elements in the film, it is basically a reproduction of the real history of the year. You know, 52 Danes who were in charge of supervising mine clearance were also injured during that demining operation. In fact, it is not surprising that the prisoners of war from defeated countries were treated like this after the war! As for the so-called "Western camp led by the United States after the war, they were soft-hearted towards the Germans, and even repaid their grievances with Germany, and wholeheartedly helped Germany revive." Actually, there are some discrepancies with historical facts. You know, according to the U.S. government’s own estimates, as early as 1944, the U.S. made more than $100 million in profits from German prisoners of war (equivalent to $4 billion to $10 billion today). After the surrender of Nazi Germany, many German prisoners of war were sent to the United States to solve the problem of labor shortage in the United States. As a result, those U.S. farm state lawmakers who tasted the sweetness even publicly asked the U.S. government to postpone the repatriation decision when the U.S. was preparing to repatriate these prisoners of war to Germany: it would be better to keep 100,000 "Germans" for us to work ! Therefore, Western Europe and the United States are not really "kind" when it comes to treating German prisoners of war, but they are just slightly better than the Soviet Union on the surface. After all, the crimes committed by the Nazis in the Soviet Union during the war were "innumerable", and the Soviets' revenge was just "returning the favor".
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